Monolinguistic Web Development With Ruby
Me
I'm Bobby.
I like making stuff.
@yburyug
http://www.github.com/rhgraysonii
And The Presentation Begins With A Slide of Rebellion
I think we're doing it wrong.
Giant Codebase
Replication
Is it crazy?
Rails
asset packing
routing
models
controllers
views
REST
JS MVC FE
asset loading
routing
models
controllers
views
AJAX
DRY
Don’t Repeat Yourself
Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.
What Do People New to Web Development Think?
JavaScript
Douglas Crockford now says...
- Don't use new
- Don't use Object.create
- Don't use this
- Don't use null
- Dont use falsiness
Yes, I took a photo of a screenshot.
IM A FREE AMERICAN
It seems everything Now compiles to JS
To what end?
History
2005 - Rails
2009 - Gmail and AJAX
2012 - Full MVC Frontend
Is there a solution?
Isomorphism
Volt
Component based
Reactive Data
Easy Setup
Fun
MVVM over MVC